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Overground speed - or lack thereof
On Fri, 21 Nov 2014 13:51:21 -0000
"D A Stocks" wrote: wrote in message ... The speed of the Overground from highbury down to shadwell is underwhelming to say the least. Slow ponderous acceleration up to probably nothing more than 25mph and then braking from what seems like 300m before the station. Are the 378s just not up to the job of running a metro service or is there a deliberate policy of a leisurely pace to operations? -- Spud I did a trip from Sydenham to Hoxton the other day and the trains seem to run to reasonable speed out on the main line south of New Cross Gate. The East London Line was always a rather leisurely affair in its Underground days so I suspect the Overground has inherited the same line speeds. I haven't been that far down on it so I'll take your word for it, but the pace on the ELL is a joke. Coupled with waiting for the train to leave highbury plus frequent pointless waits at Dalson Junction it makes it a poor 2nd choice for getting to east london from there when the Victoria+Jubilee to canada water is - on my tests - is frequently 10 minutes faster to do probably almost twice the distance. -- Spud |
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